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[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hopefully it doesn't have any Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities, like Microslop's implementation had.

[–] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How in the world did they manage that? Did they implement it internally as a TCP API and expose it?

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

It was like:

Hey Copilot, add Markdown support in Word

Sure thing Satya! There you have it, I made sure not to add any vulnerabilities like you always tell me.

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know the technicalities, but Markdown supports links, and it's possible to craft a link that downloads a file and then executes it. You can look up the Notepad.exe RCE vulnerability from this year.

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

Basically Notepad would pass the link to ShellEx and could launch executables.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

They probably vibe coded it, and only copilot reviewed and merged the code.